The short version:
- If the next game lands in Hammerfell, Bethesda has already seeded the major beats across multiple in-game texts.
- Primary sources are the Pocket Guide to the Empire (3rd edition), the Redguard history books in Skyrim, and the older "The Firsthold Revolt" fragment.
- No official confirmation on setting, only the usual radio silence since the last Todd interview.
I've been rereading the same handful of texts for years while waiting on any real update. The canon does not need invention here. It needs someone to actually use what is already printed.
Yokudan arrival and the loss of the continent
The Pocket Guide states the Yokudans reached Tamriel in 1E 808 after the sinking of Yokuda. Multiple Redguard books in Skyrim repeat the same date range and add that the last ship arrived carrying the final wave of refugees. That single event sets up both the martial culture and the lingering tension with the Altmer, who were already on Summerset when the fleet landed. No new lore required.
The Forebears versus Crowns split
"The Firsthold Revolt" and the in-game "Redguards, History and Heroes" give the clearest breakdown of the political fracture that still defines the province. The Forebears accepted the Empire's terms after the Treaty of Stros M'kai. The Crowns did not. Every Sentinel succession crisis since then traces back to that line. If TES VI is set in the Iliac Bay region, the writers already have two ready-made factions with established grievances and no need for retcons.
The Ra Gada and the sinistral elves
Skyrim's "The Ra Gada" and the older "Notes on the Ra Gada" both describe the initial wave that cleared the sinistral mer from the coast. The texts are short on exact numbers but consistent on the outcome: the elves were driven inland or killed. That leaves a ready-made ruined elven presence for exploration without contradicting anything.
The same books also mention the Ansei and the Shehai without over-explaining them. Any story that wants to touch on sword-singing can pull directly from those passages instead of inventing new rules.
Link to the standing TES VI reference thread: https://elderscrollsforum.org/vi/p/1-tes6-everything-we-know
New here? Quick intro thread is still active: https://elderscrollsforum.org/vi/d/101-introduce-yourself
So which of the existing sources are you weighting heaviest for a Hammerfell game, the political split or the older Yokudan material? And does the lack of any new Redguard lore since Skyrim change how you read those older books?